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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extending your logic, isn't there a Catholic Goan identity (451 years of Portuguese rule, intense conversions, emigration etc) which is distinct from the Hindu Goan identity? And won't we concede that different caste groupings in Goa have different "unique identities", often not even marrying into each other? Isn't there a unique gender identity too? And why not accept that within the castes too, there are "unique identities" of their own? For instance, the Sashtikar Bamon will look down on the Bardezkar (Bamon)? So, my question is: where do we stop all this? Why do some divides (Goan versus non-Goan or Catholic + Hindu versus Muslim) become acceptable and others not? When we do we accept that despite our differences, we somehow manage to work together and move forward? FN 2009/8/4 Arwin Mesquita <[email protected]>: > Goa was isolated from India (and its migrations) for about 400 > years & thru the ups/downs of the period, developed a unique identity. -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/
